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git-merge --no-commit commits

From
VNVegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 2, 2007, 16:57 UTC
Message-ID
<19f34abd0712020857m757c57cfr358a81e47f38fac8@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

I am using git 1.5.3.4 and just did the following (v1 and v2 are branches; v1 is a parent of v2):

git checkout v1 git merge --no-commit v2

It simply fast-forwarded AND committed even though I explicitly told it not to. What gives?

Kind regards, Vegard Nossum

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